Six commonly freshwater ornamental fish, namely Poecilia rediculata (guppy); Poecilia sphenops (black molly); Cichlosoma sp. (Cichlidae); Xiphophorus maculatus (platy); Carassius auratus (goldfish) and Symphisodon discus (discus) were examined for parasites during a four years study (19982002) in Turkey. The parasites species found included: Ichthyobodo sp., Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, Chilod...

In the present study, the etiological agent that caused mortality in goldfish at an aquarium company located in Bursa in northwestern Turkey was identified. Diseased fish were lethargic, displaying a loss of appetite, ascites, and exophthalmia. Internal examination revealed that the kidney was surrounded by exudate and that the spleen and liver were pale. Microbiological examination showed that...

Liza S. Comita*, Maria Uriarte, Jill Thompson†, Inge Jonckheere, Charles D. Canham and Jess K. Zimmerman Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027, USA; Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, Universidad de Puerto Rico, PO Box 21910, San Juan, PR 00931-3341, USA; Biosystems Department, Geomatics Group, Katholieke ...

Bela Bauer, Liza Huijse, Erez Berg, Matthias Troyer, and Kareljan Schoutens Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6105, USA Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138 Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universi...

The southern population of Mugil liza is distributed from Argentina (47°S) to the state São Paulo, Brazil (23°S). Young mullets use estuaries as nursery grounds, and prior recruitment into they surf zone a temporary habitat. Based on 12 consecutive months sampling, this study used generalized linear models (GLM) analyse relationships between environmental variables presence relative abundance y...

BACKGROUND Goldfish, Carassius auratus, have experienced strong anthropogenic selection during their evolutionary history, generating a tremendous extent of morphological variation relative to that in native Carassius. To locate the geographic origin of goldfish, we analyzed nucleotide sequences from part of the control region (CR) and the entire cytochrome b (Cytb) mitochondrial DNA genes for ...

1 Environmental Medicine Consortium, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC, USA 2 Department of Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC, USA 3 North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro, NC, USA 4 Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Me...